Building the transom bottom edge back up to a sharp angle after fiberglassing. The picture is right after pulling the tape that held the epoxy back while it cured. Next I’ll hit it with the pneumatic
air file to get it all flat and square.
Matt B

Matt,
The boat is coming along nicely! I saw the post regarding your service, Wanted to thank you for that. I spent the first 16yrs of my career designing and building countermeasures for military aircraft. Spent a lot of time trying to protect the 130's (as well as many others!). The 130's always produced a nice photo when they dumped their flares for the cameras.

Biss, thank you for doing your part designing the defensive system for the Herc. Funny thing about that cool picture ram dumping all the flares, the mechanics discouraged this because the recoil from all the flares firing at the same time was fatiguing the aircraft metal. Enough said, most info about those systems is classified.
Matt B

I had a porpoising issue on my Malahini so I’m getting the bottom of this Barrelback flat, really flat, like auto body work flat! Poxyshield with fairing filler to build up the last low spots.
It’s rained 4 days straight in Dallas so production has slowed.
Matt B

Question....the side planking is throughly encapsulated with SilverTip epoxy, do I sand the epoxy down flat and then start the varnish process .....or do I start varnishing and let the layers of varnish build up to even out the surface of the epoxy? The picture makes the epoxy look smooth and pretty but y’all know better, it’s rough.
Matt B